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Sleeping With Strangers:How the Movies Shaped Desire
[Paperback - 2020]
david thomson
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Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9781101971024 | Pages: 368
Shipping Weight: .34 | Dimensions: 5.1 x .7 x 8 inches

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In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies—and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Exploring the tangled notions of masculinity, femininity, beauty, and sex that characterize our cinematic imagination—and drawing on examples that range from advertising to pornography, Bonnie and Clyde to Call Me by Your Name—Thomson illuminates how film as art, entertainment, and business has historically been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. In so doing, he casts the art and the artists we love in a new light, and reveals how film can both expose the fault lines in conventional masculinity and point the way past it, toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person with desires.

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David Thomson, renowned as one of the great living authorities on the movies, is the author ofThe New Biographical Dictionary of Film, now in its fifth edition. His books include a biography of Nicole Kidman andThe Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood. Thomson is also the author of the acclaimed"Have You Seen . . . ?": A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films. Born in London in 1941, he now lives in San Francisco.

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